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The Obamacare Job Graveyard

Just hours had passed since President Obama had won reelection, but it was time enough to comprehend what the inevitable implementation of Obamacare was going to do to the American workforce. So we set about explaining how thousands of jobs were going to be lost, who was going to lose them, and why they were being eliminated.

Now, with less than 40 days left before the process of full implementation of Obamacare begins, it seems important to update those losses.

With that, we present you with the Obamacare graveyard - where good jobs go to die. Some items are updates to past stories, some are new, all are devastating.

The Obamacare graveyard can effectively be broken down into three main areas. A section where jobs are killed, a section where hours are killed, and a section where coverage is killed.

That said, welcome to the graveyard...

Lost Jobs

Welch Allyn, a company that manufactures medical diagnostic equipment in central New York, laid off 275 employees this year, and planned on dropping roughly 10% of their workforce over the next three years.

"Health care reform mandates" are to blame for up to 400 jobs being dropped at Orlando Health.

One of the biggest medical device manufacturers in the world, Stryker confirmed 1,000 jobs were lost due to Obamacare.

The medical device tax also claimed positions at Boston Scientific. The company first announced in 2011 that they would be cutting between 1,200 and 1,400 positions. Then in January of this year, they announced further layoffs for up to 1,000 employees.

A Blue Cross/Blue Shield health insurance office was closed, resulting in another 100 or so employees hitting the unemployment lines. The reason? Complexities in federal regulations and mandates implemented by Obamacare.

In March of 2010, medical device maker Medtronic warned that Obamacare taxes could result in a reduction of precisely 1,000 jobs. That plan became reality when the company cut 500 positions, and scheduled another 500 by the end of the fourth quarter in 2013.

Reading Hospital announced layoffs for 210 workers, and the elimination of another 181 jobs through attrition, citing federal health care reform requirements.

Abbott Laboratories announced a series of layoffs that would result in approximately 1,900 people being out of work. The company cited "U.S. health-care reform and the challenging regulatory environment” as a reason for the job cuts, then proceeded to donate money to politicians wanting to change Obamacare.

Lost Hours

Public employees in Virginia fell victim to Obamacare's rules for part-time workers. A minimum of 7,380 jobs were converted to less than 30 hours per week.

The nation's largest movie theater chain, Regal Entertainment, reduced the workweek for thousands of their employees.

400 employees at the Community College of Allegheny County saw their hours reduced.

The Wall Street Journal reported that numerous universities were scaling back the number of hours worked per week by their adjunct professors, in an attempt to avoid the new Obamacare requirements.

Hours for over 100 people in the Fort Wayne Community School District in Indiana have been reduced, including substitutes and support staff.

Phone operators in Affordable Care Act call centers noted the irony in "working for a call center and trying to help people get health care" but only at a part-time rate ... in order to avoid having to provide health insurance.

Lost Coverage

Repeatedly blaming Obamacare in a staff memo, UPS announced that 15,000 employee spouses are being dropped from their health insurance coverage.

Wegman's, who had previously provided coverage for employees that worked 20 or more hours, announced they were no longer offering health insurance to part-time workers thanks to ObamaCare.

The Death Toll

It should be noted that all of these reports involve companies that have been forced to make changes for hundreds or thousands of their employees. There are numerous other instances in which companies had planned to layoff tens, possibly dozens of their staff - instances which pile up under the President's health care reform law.

It is by no means meant to be an exhaustive list. But it is meant to provide examples of real companies, real jobs, and real names, soon to be added to the growing list of employment casualties provided by the inevitable implementation of Obamacare.

The NRCC also has a site called "Living Under Obamacare" that provides personalized stories of the onerous effects of the President's reform law. It puts real faces to the numbers we see above.

I say to all of you out there that the all US persons should be able to afford and have Health Care Insurance. Having said that, I must add and clarify that the Obama Health Care Program is not the solution. The solution is in a very simple law which should state the following:
1. All Health and Life Insurance companies operating in the USA will be required to offer a basic Major Medical Health Insurance Policy with no preconditions. Pooling all risk will provide a reasonable cost for all.
2. All USA citizens and residents may purchase this insurance policy from any company in any state.
3. US Persons will be able to deduct the full cost of the policy from their tax return even if they do not itemize.
4. US Persons who cannot afford to purchase a policy, will receive an Insurance Policy paid for by the proper US Government Agency and the state of residence of this person.

Its that simple !!

P.S.
No matter what details you add to these 4 points, you'll never fill more than 10 pages of legislation... ;)

Just fund the DAMN thing, let the people and DUMB ASS see how much of a train wreck IT REALLY IS!!! Thousands of jobs will be lost, unemployment will go up, Dow Jones goes down drastically and the ARROGANT SON OF A BITCH will NOT have a decent answer as to why. He'll just tip toe over the truth just like Benghazi, IRS, Ed Snowden and spying on A.P and Fox News reporters. And HOPEFULLY by 2014 some of the voters will obtain an ounce of brains and vote Republican and regain control of the House and Senate. Both sides send a bill to dopey to overturn Obamacare, he'll veto it and HOPEFULLY there will be enough Republicans to overturn the Veto. And then let the IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS, BEGIN!!!!! Because as long as Reid is still the leader of the Senate, NOTHING will get done.

Folks I am one of those people who lost her job because of Obama Care!!!!All company's have eliminated full time here to part time , cut Mgmt. jobs to lead they don't have to pay as much.And I know it is all over the country ,now if everyone thinks they are going to get health care free ,WHO IS GOING TO PAY for it.?They say hiring is up look again !!!!!!

Wait a minute!!! UNREPORTED JOB LOSSES....Back in August of 2010 (just after BHO signed the Healthcare Affordability Act of 2010) I was working for Blue Shield of California when I was called into Department Manager's office and told that "due to the Pelosi, Reid, Obama Healthcare Affordability Act" my position was being eliminated along with thousands of others. The Executive Management at Blue Shield of California acted "PROACTIVELY" to the unknown and unintended consequences of this most egregious & abhorrent act. I remain way under-employed today! Just Another Human casualty. Funny thing...as Procurement Manager I saved Blue Shield three Quarters of a Million dollars on projects previously bought by less experienced buyer WHO STILL WORKS THERE!!!
Currently in Northern California (will relocate) John Allen: 818.456.7617

I was only there for 4 years. My co-worker (@ Blue Shield for 17 years) was also laid off. The Department Manager (who remains at Blue Shield) is lacking experience just like someone else we know! Mr. Barack Hussein Obama.

my buddy's sister-in-law makes $78 an hour on the ℂOMputer. She has been unemployed for seven months but last month her payment was $20302 just working on the ℂOMputer for a few hours. more info here JOBS70.ℂOM

Democracy and Power 108: Obfuscation
Wherever politics intrudes upon economic life, political success is readily attained by saying what people like to hear rather than what is demonstrably true. Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity. —Hans F. Sennholz

"The Obama administration has unilaterally altered Obamacare again in a way that is wholly illegal, expending money from the Treasury without Congressional approval. Someone ought to pay dearly for this crime, but like all such actions in this administration, it is our children who will pay. "

The Obama administration has unilaterally altered Obamacare again in a way that is wholly illegal, expending money from the Treasury without Congressional approval. Someone ought to pay dearly for this crime, but like all such actions in this administration, it is our children who will pay.

The South Carolina Senate is taking up an extraordinary bill this week, H 3101, that (with an amendment) would be a model for state resistance to ObamaCare. The underlying bill was in need of strengthening, so Senator Tom Davis has offered an amendment that would make the bill airtight. The bill would, for all intents and purposes, nullify ObamaCare in South Carolina, using a Supreme Court-approved procedure called "anti-commandeering".

Fewer and fewer doctors in the US are self-employed, and more employed by hospitals. That is a direct result of government policy, sharply accelerated by Obamacare. The trend will be damaging to American health care. It is still possible to reverse the decline, but powerful forces want it to continue.

There is a myth in politics that elections are won and lost in the middle. The premise is that "independent" voters support tenets of both major political parties and candidates must craft their message to attract a majority of these "moderates." Despite the fact that nearly twice as many Americans self-identify as conservative as compared to liberal, conservatives are often referred to as "extremists," or worse.

I don’t want to shock our readers but, occasionally, liberals can be inconsistent. They can be, if one dares use the term, hypocritical. This latest example came to my attention as I was researching a recent piece on the case the Supreme Court is hearing with regards to unions.

Conservatives were right to warn that Governor John Kasich’s embrace of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion would increase government spending and hurt Ohio’s labor force, a February 4 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report affirms.States still being pressured to take "free" Medicaid expansion money from DC should learn from Kasich's mistake.

Obamacare has been a drag on the US economy so far based mostly on uncertainty and on businesses preparing to comply with its various rules, mandates, penaties, taxes, and fees. But a new report from the CBO shows that the law will trap people in unemployment and cause higher deficits, piling onto the national debt while lower tax receipts make it harder for the government to repay.